The Ultimate Stretchy Cheese Test

Photo: All, Tyler Florence

What’s the best part about mac and cheese or a toasty grilled cheese sandwich? To us, it’s having the gooey cheese stretch out as you take a bite. But which cheese is the stretchiest? There was only one way to find out: melt and stretch batches of different cheeses.

The Cheese-Stretch Championship

We tested eight varieties: Gouda, Swiss, Gruyère, jack, Cheddar, Fontal, Muenster, and mozzarella. We placed half-ounce cubes of each on a sheet tray in the oven at 500°F for three minutes, then scooped and dragged the cheeses across the sheet with a spoon.

Gouda and Muenster were the two stretchiest in the trials, so we put them head-to-head for the finals. Muenster won the Stretchy Cheese Grand Championship!

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